ALN Innovation Fund 2024 Celebration (hosted online by EDI Action Group)

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Event Start February 6, 2025 10:00 am	Event End February 6, 2025 11:30 am	Booking closes February 4, 2025 12:00 am
Location Online via Teams

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This celebratory event will showcase the amazing innovation fund projects undertaken in 2024 – you can see more information about the projects – and ALN’s EDI work in general here.

During the event, each of the projects will give a short presentation, sharing information and the impact of their project.

If you have an idea for a project for the next round of funding, come along and hear how this year’s went – and get some tips from those who have been through it to get the best from the process.

The programme for the morning looks like this:

Time	Innovation Fund Project	Presenters
10:00 -10:05	Introduction to the ALN EDI Innovation Fund	Dave Curtis (EDI Action Group Co-chair)
10:05 – 10:15	Evaluating university family study rooms	Kirsty Carver, Louise Dawson (Bradford) and Matthew Crofts, Kerry Dodd (Hull)
10:15 – 10:25	Student Engagement with Disability Support in the Library: Are we doing enough?	Jennifer Paton (York St John), Chris Beevers (Huddersfield)
10:30 – 10:40	Menopause Meetups	Katie Swalwell, Lesley Macnamara, Rachel Welch (Hull) and Fiona Rhodes (Lancaster)
10:40 – 10:50	Developing Zine Collections with Students	Anna Columbine (Manchester Met) and Alex Mitchell, Reis Tobolski (Salford)
10:55 – 11:05	Breaking the Mold – Tackling Preconceptions and Unconscious Bias	Sarah Bishop (Teesside)
11:05 – 11:25	Questions	Sally Dalton (EDI Action Group Co-chair)

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